Monday, April 18, 2005
My Guardian Angel by Sylvie Weil
MY Guardian Angel is set in a Jewish community in Troyes, France. The crusaders are travelling through the land and the whole community is afraid of what violent action might be visited on them through the crusaders. Twelve year old Elvina is the grandaughter of a great teacher/rabbi Rashi. She is allowed to sit in the back of the Jewish school and has been trained in herbal cures.
Elvina takes a chance and helps out some crusaders, twice, because she thinks it is the right thing to do. Will those choices bring destruction on her family? Who is the guardian angel? Will Elvina start her own school? Will she live long enough to get married?
Nicely written, this book addresses a scary time without lots of violence and while the danger is serious it is not scary.
Elvina takes a chance and helps out some crusaders, twice, because she thinks it is the right thing to do. Will those choices bring destruction on her family? Who is the guardian angel? Will Elvina start her own school? Will she live long enough to get married?
Nicely written, this book addresses a scary time without lots of violence and while the danger is serious it is not scary.
# posted by JJ @ 7:47 PM 
